Woodstock, Wales

Ambleston is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 7mi north of Haverfordwest. The parish includes the hamlets of Wallis and Woodstock . NameThe placenames, both English and Welsh placenames, mean "Amlot's farm", Amlot being a Norman-French name. Location and demographicsThe northern border of the parish is an ancient trackway leading towards St David's, with a Roman fortlet called "Castell Fflemish". This line is also the northern boundary of the cantref of Daugleddau, and was described by George Owen in 1602 as the language frontier, placing Ambleston in Little England beyond Wales. Ambleston was one of the parishes Owen described as bilingual, and in modern times it was predominantly Welsh-speaking. The 2011 census showed 34. 3% of Ambleston community's population could speak Welsh, a fall from 39. 4% in 2001. Historically, the percentage of Welsh speakers was 86 (1891): 79 (1931): 57 (1971). In 1934, a small part of the parish was transferred to the parish of St Dogwells. The pre-1934 parish had an area of 3850acre. Its census populations were: 421 (1801): 598 (1851): 386 (1901): 358 (1951): 309 (1981).

Ambleston is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 7mi north of Haverfordwest. The parish includes the hamlets of Wallis and Woodstock . NameThe placenames, both English and Welsh placenames, mean "Amlot's farm", Amlot being a Norman-French name. Location and demographicsThe northern border of the parish is an ancient trackway leading towards St David's, with a Roman fortlet called "Castell Fflemish". This line is also the northern boundary of the cantref of Daugleddau, and was described by George Owen in 1602 as the language frontier, placing Ambleston in Little England beyond Wales. Ambleston was one of the parishes Owen described as bilingual, and in modern times it was predominantly Welsh-speaking. The 2011 census showed 34. 3% of Ambleston community's population could speak Welsh, a fall from 39. 4% in 2001. Historically, the percentage of Welsh speakers was 86 (1891): 79 (1931): 57 (1971). In 1934, a small part of the parish was transferred to the parish of St Dogwells. The pre-1934 parish had an area of 3850acre. Its census populations were: 421 (1801): 598 (1851): 386 (1901): 358 (1951): 309 (1981).